Sunday, February 15, 2009

Who is tarnishing Malaysia's image

There have been numerous criticisms on those presumably tarnishing the country’s image which has been the focus by some who believe that it is blatant lie that they are spreading irresponsible stories that Malaysia is discriminating its people and those responsible should be punished.

There are many from both the government and some so called Indian representatives who have been accusing Waytha Moorthy of spreading lies on the racism, injustices, discrimination and marginalisation of the minority Indians in Malaysia! If it is not true lets take a look at some issues that we have been hitting the publics ears; a young and healthy 22-year-old Kugan was severely beaten, abused and murdered while in police custody, the Vallambrosa Tamil Primary School in Kapar was forced to conduct lessons for 69 primary two students at the school canteen, a little girl named Darshini of Standard 5 lives with a fear of being thrown out of school because she does not have a birth certificate and she is one of the thousands, a Hindu woman fell victim to the obnoxious racist abuses of a fellow Malaysian Muslim passenger onboard a Malaysian flight and the government has decided not to pursue the obvious and Tamil Schools have been neglected for the past 50 years. The much needed Race Relations Act was shelved quickly as it surfaced. If these acts are not discrimination, marginalization or racism then what are these?

Vigneswaran and Eswaran both fail to understand that it is not Waytha Moorthy who is tarnishing the image of this country. Rather, it is our beloved ruling government and Umno collectively through their racist and discriminatory policies and practices, injustices, religious extremism and marginalisation of minorities that has put our nation to shame.

The portrayal of Malaysia as being a democratic nation, peaceful and harmonious country is completely false and it does not take Waytha Moorthy to demonstrate this nor is he malicious to spread such false accusation against the government. If only you read the US State Department’s Country Report on Human Rights in Malaysia, you will see for yourself that it is not Waytha Moorthy but our government policies and practices that garnered them this image. The joke is that they have not accepted nor willing to accept that they screwed up big and still failed to identify its faults and mistakes and take stern actions and massive steps to rectify them? If America can make that change why can’t we? A good and responsible government is the one that is willing to change when there is a dire need for change. The Malaysian government has yet to take even the initial steps to demonstrate to its people how it is going to make right what has been wrong for the last 50 years. Worse still they are living in denial!

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